Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crept out of Rio de Janeiro. Late as usual, packed to the gills with the sweating homeward-bound, it broke down outside the city. For a while the passengers endured with true commuter calm. Then, like an oilfield fire, wild revolt swept through the train. The long-suffering customers tore out the seats by the roots, dragged down light fixtures and luggage racks, turned the train into a shambles...
...even that hope was in danger. If the western Allies and the Russians, beating up from the Austrian frontier, could meet quickly, the bastion would be useless. Allied tank columns tore southeast toward Nürnberg at week...
...armies. Lieut. General William H. Simpson's U.S. Ninth (under the tactical direction of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery) threw one arm around the top. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army (under General Omar N. Bradley's Twelfth Army Group) turned north, tore through the last German defenses to wrap the other arm. The Ninth and the First shook hands at a street corner in the little town of Lippstadt on Easter Sunday. A First Army commander found Colonel Sidney R. Hinds giving orders to his combat team of the Ninth. Said a nearby corporal...
...follow the armor you sail along easily for several miles. Then suddenly you come to debris of war again: a bend in the road where the fleeing Germans turned for a delaying action. You see the tracks where the tanks hurriedly tore into the fields to hit the Germans from several sides at once. Then you pass the bend where the smashed trucks, guns and equipment are scattered over the fields...
...Overcast. The Japs claimed to have known, two days in advance, that the blow was coming. But they were strangely unprepared when the white-starred fighters dropped out of the overcast above each of the main airfields around Tokyo and tore across the strips, strafing scores of enemy planes still aground. Dive bombers screamed down almost vertically; Avengers roared in at a steep glide, each with a 2,000-lb. bomb. The Jap air bases erupted flames and smoke...